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I've learned that PhotoRec doesn't handle individual file types, onlly families of file types. So, gnucash is found using gz.

gz
gnucash, kmy, RData, schematic, sla, tgz, als, prproj

zip
docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods, odp, epub, jar, apk, kmz, vsdx, kra, xd, indd, xpi, sketch

txt
py, php, html, asp ...

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Same with 7.3 beta... it doesn't work.

PhotoRec syntax error: gnucash,enable,search

If I run the same command but replace gnucash with txt it recovers all the txt (and py, html etc) files.

I don't know how many filetypes it might do it for but I can't get it to work for ...

PhotoRec 7.2, on openSUSE

I used a scripted run of photorec to recover everything on a usb stick. It recovered lots of files including pdf and gnucash.

I then did a test and searched only for pdf and it returned just pdf. I then did the same for gnucash and it recovered nothing.

I wonder why that might happen? It's ...